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combat
/ˈkɑmˌbæt/
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What does combat mean?
noun
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- a struggle for victory
verb
- To fight; to struggle against.
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verb
- To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
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Secondly, any knight proposing to combat, might, if he pleased, select a special antagonist from among the challengers, by touching his shield.
What really gave me some satisfaction, however, was the respective degree of freshness with which he and I emerged from our combat.
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When this has been done, he pointed out, nothing is left with which to combat the upward vertical thrusts of the air.
They are taught from infancy to combat want, and to place comfort above all the pleasures of the intellect or the heart.
But the incident was enough to expose the opponents of Birth Control and the extreme methods they used to combat our progress.